INTEREST (Simple).

1. What is the simple interest on £185 for 4 years, at 4 p. c. per ann. ?

2. Find the simple interest on £888 for 4 years, at 34 per

cent.

3. Find the simple interest on £880 for 5 months, at 71 per cent. per ann.

4 Find the simple interest on £270 for 4 years, at 5 per cent. per ann.

5. What is the simple interest on £345, 19s. 4d. for 2 years, at 4 per cent. per ann.; and on £546, 7s. 10d. for 48 days, at 3 per cent. per ann. ?

6. What is the interest on £100 for 27 weeks 3 days, at 5 p. c. per ann. ?

7. Find the simple interest on £748, 15s. for 9 years, at 5 and 5p. c. per ann.

8. Find the simple interest on £500 for 4 years, at £5, 7s. 6d. p. c. per ann.

9. Find the amount of £325, 16s. 8d. at 41 per cent. simple interest in 3 years.

10. Find the simple interest on £245, 16s. for 73 days, at 2 p. c. per ann.

11. Find the simple interest on £926, 15s. for 200 days, at 7 p. c. per ann.

12. Find the simple interest on £12,775 for 198 days, at 31 p. c. per ann.

13. What is the amount of £297, 15s. 6d. for 12 weeks 4 days, at 3 per cent.?

14. Find the interest on £945, 10s. for 7 years, at 4 p. c. per ann.

15. To what sum does 31 per cent. on £12, os. 24d. amount?

16. What is the interest and amount of £802, 17s. 6d. for 4 years, at 2p. c. per ann. ?

17. Find the simple interest and amount of £10,010, 10S. for 6 years, at 9p. c. per ann.

18. Find the amount (capital and interest) on £1158, 17s. 6d. for 1 year 115 days, at 24 per cent. per annum; and on £3996, 15s. for 4 years 225 days, at 23 per cent. per annum, simple interest.

19. Find the simple interest on £800 for 4 years 16 weeks, at 4 p. c. per ann.

20. Find the simple interest on £236, 6s. 8d. for 2 years, at 3 per cent.

21. Find the amount of £2833, 6s. 8d. for 4 years, at 3 per

cent.

22. Find the simple interest on £8001, 10s. for 11 years, at 74 p. c. per ann.

23. Find the simple interest on £411, 10s. for a quarter of a year, at 4 per cent. per annum. (Fractions of a farthing may be neglected.)

24. Find the interest on £198, 6s. 8d. for 3 years, at 3 per cent. per annum.

25. Find the simple interest on £257, 6s. 10d. for 3 years, at 5 per cent. per annum; and of £925, 16s. for 4 years, at 3 per cent. per annum.

26. If a boy 11 years old puts a guinea into a savings bank paying 2 per cent. per annum simple interest, what sum will he be able to take out when he is 14?

27. A sum of £350 is lodged in a bank; what will it amount to at the end of 6 years 10 months at 4 per cent. simple interest?

28. Find the simple interest and amount of £7506 for 71 years, at 4 p. c. per ann.

29. Find the simple interest on £800 from 1st January 1872 to 21st May 1872, both inclusive, at 5 per cent. per

annum.

30. What would be the interest on £150 from the 10th of September till the 22d of November in the same year, at 4 per cent. per annum?

31. Find the amount of £2250 in 4 years, at 3 per cent. simple interest.

32. Find the simple interest on £10,400 for 4 years 16 weeks, at 4 p. c. per ann.

33. Find the simple interest on £2500 for 11 years, at 51 p. c. per ann.

34. Find the simple interest on £90,010 for 7 years months, at 34 p. c. per ann.

35. Find the simple interest and amount of £1248, 12s. for 5 years, at 3p. c. per ann.

36. Find the simple interest and amount of £1277, 10s. from the 31st of March till the 4th of July of the same year, at 8 p. c. per ann.

37. Find the simple interest on £639, 8s. from May 10 to August 20, at 5p. c. per ann.

38. Which will produce the larger interest per annum, and by how much, £5875 invested at 4 per cent., or £8990 invested at 3 per cent.?

39. Find the simple interest on p. c. per annum, and deduct from it

£220 for 7 months, at 34 375 of a guinea.

40. Which investment will bring in the larger sum, and by how much, at the end of 7 years, £925 at 5·825 per cent. per annum, or £2500 at 23 per cent. per annum, both at simple interest?

41. I am entitled to of the interest on £750 from March 3 to July 27, at 5 per cent. per annum, how much should I receive?

42. A tradesman starts with a capital of £2400, and puts by a profit of 6 per cent. yearly; what is he worth at the end of 7 years?

43. A £50 railway share pays a yearly dividend of £6; what annual interest do I get on my money if I bought the share for £55?

44. £550, 10s. was borrowed January 1, 1861, at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum; what sum repaid the debt on the 20th of October in the same year?

45. I borrowed £525 March 25th, paid £200 back June

10. Express each of the silver coins now in use in England by a decimal of 2 d.

11. What decimal of £100 is the quotient of £61, 4s. 71d. by 267?

12. Reduce of a shilling to the decimal of a guinea.

13. What decimal of £2 is each of the gold, silver, and copper coins in circulation in England?

Reduction to the Decimal of (Weights and Measures).

1. Reduce 3 ac. 2 rds. 22 pls. to the decimal of 4 acres; and of 4 ac. 3 rds. 16 pls.

2. What decimal is (a) 3 bush. 3 pks. of 1 qr.? (b) 19 qrs. 1 nl. of 11 yds.? (c) 59 yds. 1 ft. of 1 mile?

3. Reduce 9 of 1 pks. to the decimal of 33 qrs.; and 1 of a year to the decimal of a day.

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4 Add together 55 of a cwt. and 3125 qrs., and reduce this sum to the decimal of 10,000 tons.

5. What decimal of 1 lb. Troy is 64 grains?

6. Reduce 3 dwts. to the decimal and to the vulgar fraction of 2 lbs. Troy.

7. Express as the decimal of 1 lb. Troy each of the lower denominations of Troy weight.

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8. What part of 10 ac. 2 rds. 37 pls. is 1 ac. 3 rds. 3712 pis.? Give answer in vulgar fraction, and in decimals to four places.

9. Reduce 2 wks. 61 dys. to the decimal of 4 dys. 3 hrs.

10. Reduce 3 fur. 10 pls. to the decimal of a mile; and 2 ft. 3 in. to the decimal of 3 yds. 2 ft.

11. Three Russian versts=10,500 ft. ; reduce a verst to the decimal of a mile.

55. A man buys 50 shares in a concern at the rate of £20, JOS. per share, and 100 more at £7, 15s. per share. The halfyearly dividend on the whole is 3s. 4d. per share; what interest per cent. per annum does he realize?

56. What is the rate per cent. of interest if £1009 produces £147.56625 in 4 years 6 months?

57. I invested £730 on 25th March, and on the 29th September following it amounted to £777; what was the rate of interest per annum?

58. In what time will any sum of money treble itself at 2 per cent., and at 12 per cent. per annum, simple interest?

59. What is the rate of interest per cent. per annum, if £1950 amounts to £2905, 10s. in 21 years at simple interest? 60. In what time will the interest on £325 at 31 p. c.per ann. amount to a sum sufficient to discharge a debt of £67, 125.

61. What was the rate of simple interest per cent. per annum, if £730 laid out on the 25th of March amounted to £753, 10s. on the 29th of September?

62. At what rate p. c. will £440 amount to £449, 12s. 6d. in 7 months at simple interest?

63. What sum of money will amount to £307, 16s. in 3 years, at 4 p. c. per annum, simple interest?

64. If the interest on £540, 10s. for one year be 27s. 6d., what principal will yield the same sum in 2 years?

65. 4 years ago, £2785, 16s. 8d. was lent at simple interest, and it now amounts to £3538, os. 2d.; what was the rate of interest?

66. What is the capital which, put out at 3 p. c. simple interest for 5 years 4 months, will amount to £9973, 6s. 8d.?

67. At what rate per cent. per annum, simple interest, will £776, 155. amount to £978, 14s. 1d. in 61⁄2 years?

68. In what time will £229, 10s. amount to £258, 3s. 9d., at 5 per cent. per annum, simple interest?

69. What capital would be required in order to gain £12, Is. od. in 2 years 5 months, at 3 per cent. ?

70. What sum of money will amount to £256, 10s. in 4 years, at 3p. c. per annum, simple interest?